Brian Chesky
CEO and Cofounder, AirBnB
$9.4B
$270.9M (3%)
as of 11/22/24
About Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky cofounded peer-to-peer room and home rental company Airbnb with Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia in 2008; Chesky is CEO.
Chesky owns around 10% of Airbnb.
In 2022, Chesky announced he would start living on Airbnb full time, moving to a different city or town every few weeks.
A former bodybuilder, Chesky attended Rhode Island School of Design where he met Gebbia.
Chesky is the son of two social workers; he made $40,000 a year as an industrial designer in Los Angeles before Airbnb took off.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
AirbnbResidence
San Francisco, CaliforniaMarital status
SingleBirth date
08/29/81 (age 43)Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Rhode Island School of DesignSelf-made
self-madeBrian Chesky’s fortune is worth
157K
troy ounces of gold
145K
median U.S. household
94K
median U.S. income
0.188%
U.S. credit card volume
0.038%
GDP of the United States
0.028%
United States debt
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Broke and faced with rising rents, Gebbia and Chesky initially bought an air bed for their apartment and rented it out.
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